The Art of Sinking

Tom Service introduces the latest in experimental music including from Aberdeen Sound, Ben Nobuto's The Art of Sinking for portable keyboard and child's voice inspired by Alexander Pope's satirical The Art of Sinking Poetry and from St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, a free improvisation for pipe organ and saxophone from Heiner Goebbels and Raymond MacDonald. Also from last year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival comes leading Lithuanian composer, Raminta Šerkšnytė's Oriental Elegy inspired by Alexander Sokurov's film which, she says, shocked her with its 'subtlety, ingenious fantasy and the deepest reflection of the mysterious world of nature sounds - the ripple of water, the murmur of wind and the rustle of the trees.' And the natural world is also the inspiration for Oliver Pashley's Inflorescence, the botanical term for a cluster of flowers on a plant's stem. Also in the show is Egidija Medekšaitė's Prakanda, from the Sanskrit word for a tree trunk, a work in which she mapped the images of tree rings into melodic lines, each with its own time, pitch, timbre and articulation.

Ben Nobuto: The Art of Sinking
Zubin Kanga (ROLI keyboard)

Raminta Šerkšnytė: Oriental Elegy
Mivos Quartet

Oliver Pashley: Inflorescence
Hermes Experiment

Egidija Medekšaitė: Prakanda
Ensemble Kwartludium

Improvisation
Heiner Goebbels (pipe organ), Raymond MacDonald (saxophone)